The Minab girls' school bombing investigation

The story so far

1. 

   Update 4Sep 19 12:27 UTC55 days later

   A Decade-Old List, a School in Minab, and 178 Dead

   UN experts say two American strikes killed at least 178 civilians and relied on a decade-old target list, meeting the threshold for indiscriminate attacks.

   What moved

   • SEP 19 UN experts release war-crimes finding

   Still open after this report

   • No identified location, date or target for the second strike
   • No public US account, toll finalization, or ICC jurisdictional path
2. 

   Update 3Jul 26 04:15 UTC4 days later

   No Verifiable Evidence Yet for Claim of School Bombing That Killed 120 Children

   A video alleged a U.S. strike killed 120 children in Iran. The reporting file contains no evidence to verify that claim.

   Still open after this report

   • No verified death toll, weapon identification, location damage assessment, hearing transcript, official admission, or denial has been established from the supplied materials.
   • No verified link has been established between the Minab allegations and any staffing decision affecting civilian protection work.
3. 

   Update 2Jul 22 04:20 UTC4 days later

   156 dead at Minab: a US Tomahawk, a school, and a silence that has lasted 144 days

   Four independent forensic teams say an American cruise missile hit a primary school in southern Iran on the opening day of the US–Israeli war. The Pentagon has investigated for over 100 days and released nothing.

   Still open after this report

   • The precise death toll — Iranian authorities, Sky News/Forensic Architecture, the BBC, Amnesty and Al Jazeera give materially different counts ranging from 140 to 170, and the breakdown between children and adults varies with them.
   • Whether the strike was deliberate, negligent, or a failure of intelligence-sharing within the targeting pipeline; no US internal review has been made public.
4. 

   Update 1Jul 18 02:16 UTC

   At Least 121 Children Died at Shajareh Tayyebeh School. The Evidence Now Points to a U.S. Tomahawk.

   A Sky News and Forensic Architecture study, corroborated by BBC, CNN, AP and The Guardian, traces the first strike of Operation Epic Fury to an American cruise missile — and the Pentagon's own map places Minab inside the U.S. target box.

   Still open after this report

   • Whether the strike was a deliberate targeting of the school, a known collateral consequence, or a targeting failure on the adjacent base — the U.S. has not publicly explained.
   • Why the Pentagon investigation has produced no public finding more than 100 days after the strike.
   • Whether any U.S. service member has been disciplined, reassigned, or held accountable in any form.